NixonRFC

Said this last week, but I think we're far more comfortable in 2nd place and being underdogs for the title, it won't be good for the nerves but I think the later we regain top spot the better, less chance to fuck it up, so I think we'll go there on Sunday and get a very no thrills professional 2-0 win, any win will do though, if the tims go into their game being pegged back to level points it definitely adds pressure.

The tims turn players over after 2/3 years most times, I'm not sure I want that quick of a turnover because it feels like they're constantly hitting the reset button and that's probably a reason why they're shite in Europe, but there has to be a middle ground between keeping players for 2 years and keeping ones like us for 5/6 years.

We might move on but I'll be amazed if he does, he couldn't find a club down south to pay him what we were offering two years ago when his profile was at it's absolute peak, two years on, bad injuries and a big overall regression in his game makes his appeal even less now, by the end of the season he'll have about £4m before tax left on his contract, think we'd need to offer him a pretty good payoff before he would consider leaving.

Case in point... 😂

Again, I never said you would, but there's thousands of Rangers fans who've never saw us win a Treble, many thousands who haven't seen us win a League in person, it'll be them who'll hold him and everyone else in the squad up as legends if it happens. Fuck me, Marvin Andrews still gets the hero treatment for being part of Helicopter Sunday and he was hopeless, players from memorable successful seasons are always put on a pedestal.

He would be to many though, like it or not there's thousands of fans 20 and under who's only real experience of a successful Rangers team was during covid when all we could do is watch it on the telly, if we somehow won a treble this year then these players will be remembered forever from that section of the fanbase, add into that it's been 21 years since we've won a treble, you could possibly take that age up to 30 year olds too.

I like the big guy, he's got a great attitude, he's a good teammate and always works his arse off, he'll finish with around 25 goals, and if we win the league he'll be a hero, if we win the treble he'll be a legend, and if we win the cup double he'll get a lot of good will, if everything goes wrong he'll be public enemy number one.

I just looked up our record against both Edinburgh teams since we won the league, I didn't include that season since we pumped everyone that year. P26 W22 D3 L1 GF66 GA17 The only game we lost was that League cup semi, and the fact that's the only one makes Goldson's defeatest attitude that day even more frustrating.

Give me Hearts over either of them any day of the week and twice on Sunday's, they've got a bigger mental block against us than what we have against the tims at the piggery, plus we always seem to be up for it against them, where as against the likes of County, Livi, St Johnstone and Dundee, we can more often than not just go through the motions.

You're being very harsh there, the pass from the Hearts player was that bad it completely wrong footed Tav, but it meant it completely held up for the Hearts player too, so we could eventually deal with it. I'm critical of Tavernier when his defending deserves it, but that wasn't a fault yesterday, now if the Hearts boy played that ball delibtately and it fell into the path of an on running Hearts forward, I'd say fair enough, he got done, but that wasn't the case, Tav had his angles spot on, thats why the poor ball caught everyone out, not just him.

Fucking hell, I was using sarcasm to reinforce my belief that we almost always stroll it against Hearts, I don't know if you genuinely disagree with that or you just don't want to be honest online in case other fans are watching, which I suppose is fair enough, but are you telling me if you're sitting in the boozer with your mates, and the subject of a Hearts game comes up, any cunt in your group are ever worried about them? Every club always has one or two teams they struggle to play against, and we're one of Hearts' ones, there's nothing wrong with admitting that.

Only seen snippets so far but I understand that logic.

Shankland is slow as fuck with the arse the size of the Broomloan, give him 3 months in a Rangers top and we'd be moaning like fuck because he holds us back and he can't do anything against packed defences.

Matondo has so many good attributes, he could be a real player if we can just get him to put them altogether, there's plenty of players I'd happily see the back of but he's one that I'd like to see us try and coach for another year, of there's no improvement after that then fair enough but he's got pace, skill, can go with both feet, he's brave, always wants the ball too, I think the pros well outweigh the cons but it's just about trying to get it all to work.

Easy peasy, played well today but it's Hearts, we could get a squad from here and beat them, they just don't know how to play against us and long may it continue. We've shot ourselves in the foot this last week, but this is a good win combined with them shitting the bed twice yesterday, we can get some momentum back in our belief, onto next week.